didn't have their rifles out, so that was good.

It was good.

Occupied D.C. We did see a bee walked by a protest on the way here.

And yeah, a dude just flipped off the reflecting pool as we went by.

So spirits are high here in D.C. And I'm here for it.

I'm flying back tomorrow.

I wish I had more time.

What

What is Gloria Steinem's legacy going to be? And is it really under fire right now?

It is daunting to be speaking as some form of authority figure about Gloria Steinem.

The impact that she has had has been immense.

I have never known a world where her influence wasn't there.

As a Gen X woman, I came of age in a world that was under the influence of her power, and I'm immensely grateful for it and always have been.

Yes, I think her legacy is being challenged.

I think just about any positive legacy right now is being challenged.

that's such a good point

What is Gloria Steinem's legacy going to be? And is it really under fire right now?

It is daunting to be speaking as some form of authority figure about Gloria Steinem.

The impact that she has had has been immense.

I have never known a world where her influence wasn't there.

As a Gen X woman, I came of age in a world that was under the influence of her power, and I'm immensely grateful for it and always have been.

Yes, I think her legacy is being challenged.

I think just about any positive legacy right now is being challenged.

that's such a good point

The immutable, yes.

The e- exactly, the immutable.

And I think that there's probably things that dance along the lines of nuance if you're a native sp- native Spanish speaker, which I'm not.

But this idea of when something becomes your identity, it's something that you take with you and that you own, and it's, you can't move it or fix it really.

It's just you.

Versus when something is something you are feeling, it's transient.

I used this in an essay about anxious attachment because I think women get blamed sort of for being, having anxious attachment in dating, and that means it's on you.

Mm-hmm.

women.

And that's a very bold, simple but bold statement.

And I read it and I was like, oh my God.

Yeah, that's the core of all of the things.

My head was so full of all of these disparate, seemingly disparate topics that I wanted to write about and talk about regarding women in 2026 in the US.

And I was like, that's the unifying theme.

And I started working on this essay after I read that.

So they may not repeal it in so many words, but they will repeal it in other ways.

Give us a quick pricey of the essay for the folks in the, in the chat who haven't read it yet.

Sure.

I heard the Dr. Oz comment about us being under babied and like millions of us, I bristled.

And I also thought, well, he's not wrong.

like numerically, we have never had a lower replacement rate on births to adults.

I think we want to be at around 2.5 and we're at 1.6 babies per birthable human.

So we are under baby.

safe,